WHAT IN THE FUCK HAPPENED TO GAS PRICES Options

[Mommy]

In Port Wentworth, GA, here is a 3 day time line of gas prices:

2 days ago: $3.83
Yesterday: $3.69 (went DOWN)
This morning: $3.79
This afternoon: $3.97
Now: $4.39

Oh and it's not like it's just like that at the gas station by our house. We went to the island and to Savannah this evening. We filled up in Savannah. The pump read $4.39, and it pumped at $4.49/gal. It cost us $68.01 to fill up a CAR. Jesus fucking Christ. Seriously, anyone who votes for Obama can kiss our economy goodbye.

[dauss]

it depends what you use it for.
Ethanol as a way to ween ourselves off foreign oil, crock of shit.
Ethanol as a cleaner fuel, crock of shit.
Ethanol as street legal race fuel, awesome. I'm seriously considering to getting tuned for E85 on my car because you make a lot more power and torque.

[Billy]

it depends what you use it for.
Ethanol as a way to ween ourselves off foreign oil, crock of shit.
Ethanol as a cleaner fuel, crock of shit.
Ethanol as street legal race fuel, awesome. I'm seriously considering to getting tuned for E85 on my car because you make a lot more power and torque.

From Wikipedia:

Combustion of ethanol in an internal combustion engine yields many of the products of incomplete combustion that are produced by gasoline and significantly larger amounts of formaldehyde and related species such as formalin, acetaldehyde, etc..[40] This leads to a significantly larger photochemical reactivity that generates much more ground level ozone.[41] This data has been assembled into The Clean Fuels Report comparison of fuel emissions[42] and shows that ethanol exhaust generates 2.14 times as much ozone as does gasoline exhaust. When this is added into the custom "Localised Pollution Index (LPI)" of The Clean Fuels Report the local pollution, i.e. that which contributes to smog, is 1.7 on a scale where gasoline is 1.0 and higher numbers signify greater pollution. This issue has been formalised by the California Air Resouces Board in 2008[43] by recognising control standards for formaldehydes et al as an emissions control group much like the conventional NOx and Reactive Organic Gases (ROGs).

Ethanol, in many ways, is much more 'dirty' than hydrocarbons (oil). It has less energy than gasoline, which means you must consume larger amounts of it in order to go the same distance. This is bad because you get less energy for the same weight, even further reducing ethanol's efficiency.

And though Ethanol is a way to ween ourselves off of foreign oil, it is a much better solution to just drill our own oil to ween ourselves off of foreign oil. Weening ourselves off of foreign oil ultimately must happen, but now may not be the right time to start consuming our own resources. But that is entirely a different argument.